Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz. 2014. “Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions.” Perspectives on Politics 12(2): 313-331
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. 2017. “The Global Rise Personalized Politics” The Washington Quarterly 40(1): 7-19
- Erica Frantz and Elizabeth A. Stein. 2017. “Countering Coups: Leadership Succession Rules in Dictatorships.” Comparative Political Studies Forthcoming
- Erica Frantz and Andrea Kendall-Taylor. 2017. “Pathways to democratization in personalist dictatorships.” Democratization 24(1): 20-40
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. 2016. “The New Dictators: Why Personalism Rules.” Foreign Affairs Snapshot Foreign Affairs Best of the Web, 2016
- George Derpanopoulos, Barbara Geddes, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. 2016. “Are Coups Good for Democracy?” Research & Politics 3(1):
- Joseph Wright and Daehee Bak. 2016. “Measuring Autocratic Regime Instability.” Research & Politics 3(1): DOI: 10.1177/2053168015625078
- Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright. 2015. Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival. Oxford University Press
- Deniz Aksoy, David B. Carter, and Joseph Wright. 2015. “Terrorism and the Fate of Dictators.” World Politics 67(3): 423–468
- Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright. 2015. “Human Rights Prosecutions and Autocratic Survival.” International Organization 69(2): 343–373
- Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz, and Barbara Geddes. 2015. ”Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival.” British Journal of Political Science 45(2): 287–306 featured on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog
- Erica Frantz and Andrea-Kendall Taylor. 2014. “A dictator’s toolkit: Understanding how co-optation affects repression in autocracies.” Journal of Peace Research 51(3): 332-346
- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Natasha Ezrow. 2014. “Autocratic Fate: How Leaders’ Post-Tenure Expectations Influence the Behavior of Dictatorships.” Whitehead Journal of International Diplomacy. 15(1)
- Barbara Geddes, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. 2014. “Military Rule.” Annual Review of Political Science 17: 147-162
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz. 2014. “What Strongmen Have to Fear.” Foreign Policy Democracy Lab (June 2, 2014)
- Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz. 2014. “How Autocracies Fall.” The Washington Quarterly. 37(1): 35-47
- Erica Frantz and Elizabeth A. Stein. 2012. “Comparative Leadership in Non-Democracies.” in Comparative Political Leadership, ed. Ludger Helms. London: Palgrave MacMillan
- Natasha Ezrow and Erica Frantz. 2011. “State Institutions and The Survival of Dictatorships.” Journal of International Affairs Vol. 46 No. 1